Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?

Notice in the first two lines the increase in worth the more macabre the object. I think that’s how the fans demand more and more of them. Just knowing your thoughts isn’t good enough anymore. They wanted to know what your insides were like and now they demand to know every single disaster in your life and have you write songs about it: “There’s a world outside of my front door that gets off on being down.” They just want to make music, sing you to sleep. They just want you to like the music they make. But due to this demand for disaster, scandal, and horrible things to write about they need bad luck to carry on hence “umbrellas on the inside." Now they don’t want to give up, because quitters never win. But I think they’ve realized now that line is useless to them. It’s not what they want; it’s always what the people want. Even if they don’t quit they will fail, so they might as well just get it over with. Why wait for the ship to sink? People can say that they’re helping but they(FOB) can't stop feeling the way they are. They’re ‘broken down on memory lane’ stuck remembering their past because they have to write it. It ends with the phrase “Alone together, we’re alone” which is just saying how we all share the same feeling of aloneness. The music is like most Fall Out Boy: up-beat alternative with bluesy vocals. This makes it so that the passing ear would just hear a catchy tune, and not hear the actual meaning. To be naïve like that just gives more reason to the song. Although, writing about their despair of having to write about desolation fuels the fire. So then their song about just wanting to sing you to sleep…goes unnoticed, which is probably intended. I recall Pete ( the bassist) saying how Folie a Deux (the record that came after the one this song is on) relates least to the band. Now I can see why.